Red Bull Empire Of Dirt

Just over a month ago I got to shoot the Red Bull Empire Of Dirt in England. It was the first ever slope style BMX dirt event of its kind with all the best dirt jumpers in attendance. The event was insane and I am so thankful to Taryn and Tristan at Red Bull SA for the life changing experience I had there. The idea was to get the event covered in Blunt magazine however Touchline Media shut down the publication whilst I was in England. Blunt has however kept its website running and they posted the write up I did on the event. So for more pictures and the full story click here.

The Lesser Spotted Short Stop

Everyone has that one friend who every once in a while just gets wild. Well I have a few of these friends and they never cease to entertain me. Recently I went on a charity road race (Cannonball Run) with my shortest friend Brad and his alter ego The Lesser Spotted Short Stop. These pictures are of The Lesser Spotted Short Stop and rumour has it he went swimming in a crocodile invested river in Botswana this past weekend. When I asked what possessed him to do such a thing I got a one word answer in my inbox "booze".

Ingozi

Sometimes you just spot signs and feel compelled to shoot them. This was one of those times.

Double Down Grudge

The other day I hung out at some friends' hotel room and we messed around with some lighting they had hired for a film job. My new D300 has multiple exposure which my previous camera didn't have so I decided to mess around with that. Here are two double exposure results and then a grudge for good measure.

Georgia At War... Again

Two years ago I went on a trip to Georgia (formerly part of Russia) as part of tv show pilot for MTV. Back then it was believed that many Chechnian Rebels were hiding there. The tv show called "Vagabondz" was/is to be a travel show that would test pre-conceived ideas of places and thus we went to Georgia (despite being warned we'd be beheaded) to try find the rebels and shoot machine guns with them.

Well as if you couldn't guess already we didn't find any rebels let alone any form of gun in the country. In fact whenever we asked about guns, people who had been so friendly to us would get so offended and turn their backs to us leaving us feeling like insensitive pricks. Georgians are perhaps the friendliest most receptive and hospitable nation I have yet come across. They were so proud of their freedom from Russia and the peace they had fought for. It really is a shame to see the chaos that Russia has yet again inflicted on them. Seeing on the news some of the places I visited having just been bombed saddens me. Those great people don't need this. Hell no one needs war, lets get over ourselves already.

Here are some pics from that trip.

Back Home

I have just got back from a 3 week trip to England where I was shooting an article for Blunt Magazine (R.I.P.) which will now not be in Blunt. That would explain why there haven't been any updates on my blog. I am busy trying to get through the back log of work that has now piled up but as soon as that happens you can be sure there'll be an influx of pics right here.

Some friends came by my place this weekend and took me through to the Cars In The Park event that took place at Zwartkops on Sunday. Here is one of my favourite cars from that...

Green Ramp

The Green Ramp as it is collectively known is somewhat of a legend in Johannesburg. It's in Parkhurst and was even used in the new Converse ad campaign which Warren Van Rensburg shot. What's even cooler is that it's just down the road from The Riot BMX Shop. So the other day Colin, Greg and myself headed down for a little sundown sesh. We had a blast and I shot these couple of pics. When these two ride together it's better to just put down my bike and pull out the camera which is exactly what I did.